Hello community,
I am using 'C_date_new = input(C_date,anydtdte20.);' to read in a date variable (saved as text field) with date value of '18/10/24', but after I read in, the date was converted to '2024-10-18', is there another way to read in the text date field and make the correct conversion?
Appreciate your help and thank you!
is this a formatting problem rather?
data w;
C_date='18/10/24';
date_new = input(C_date,anydtdte20.);
format date_new yymmdd8.;
run;
And why aren't you using
date_new = input(C_date,yymmdd8.);
@zimcom wrote:
Hello community,
I am using 'C_date_new = input(C_date,anydtdte20.);' to read in a date variable (saved as text field) with date value of '18/10/24', but after I read in, the date was converted to '2024-10-18', is there another way to read in the text date field and make the correct conversion?
Appreciate your help and thank you!
Are your values like '18/10/24' supposed to be YEAR Month Day? then you need to explicitly use a format that does that like yymmdds8.
ANYDTDTE has to guess when there is not an explicit 4 digit year and will usually assume that a YEAR is the last value generally.
And after the whole Y2K thing I have a lot of wonder why anyone is unsophisticated enough to start creating more issues by using two-digit years.
Thank you @ballardw!
Thank you @novinosrin!
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